Only in Ireland: Train station where passengers have to exit through a window

Vic_08 · 09-09-2016 03:27AM #1

Yes, a window.

The train company has re-laid the platform 40cm higher so now the station doors are blocked from opening, result is passengers forced to climb through a window to get onto the platform.

I tell a lie though, it is not in Ireland but Germany. That bastion of Teutonic efficiency where comically stupid things like this cannot happen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-37223043

Peregrinus · 09-09-2016 03:50AM

Vic_08 wrote: »

Yes, a window.

The train company has re-laid the platform 40cm higher so now the station doors are blocked from opening, result is passengers forced to climb through a window to get onto the platform.

And the really ironic thing is that this has supposedly been done to improve wheelchair accessiblity. The raised platform is flush with the train floor, see, so you can roll straight on. All you have to work out is how to get yourself and your wheelchair through the window and onto the platform in the first place.

tabbey · 16-09-2016 02:56PM

Peregrinus wrote: »

And the really ironic thing is that this has supposedly been done to improve wheelchair accessiblity. The raised platform is flush with the train floor, see, so you can roll straight on. All you have to work out is how to get yourself and your wheelchair through the window and onto the platform in the first place.

I assume there is a ramp at the end of the platform.

The question remains however, does the wheelchair user have to enter the booking office from the street / carpark, get a ticket, then return via the front door, before ascending the platform ramp.

The story is typical of the silly season, and of anti German mentality, which has led to the Brexit fiasco.

Some groups never learn.

Only in Ireland: Train station where passengers have to exit through a window

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